{"id":344,"date":"2023-02-01T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/?page_id=344"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:37:05","slug":"club-locomotives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/club-locomotives\/","title":{"rendered":"Club Locomotives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The club owns a small number of 5″ and 7.25″ gauge locomotives, as well as rolling stock for carrying passengers or for helping move equipment and materials around the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GP40 David Eaton<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Probably our most regularly used locomotive, this 7.25″ gauge battery-electric model is based on a 4-axle diesel-electric GP40 locomotive, built by General Motors between November 1965 and December 1971. Previously in the livery of the New Haven Railroad, it has recently been refurbished and, internally, extensively rebuilt by a couple of volunteers (you know who you are…) to a very high standard, gaining its smart new livery at the same time. It is a powerful machine, easily capable of hauling a well loaded train around our circuit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GP40 David Eaton<\/em> in between duties at Woodside station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rusty<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A 7.25″ gauge 0-4-0 battery-electric shunting device that is most often to be found on a works train, but which occasionally gets pressed into service to haul passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rusty<\/em> on the turntable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sandy<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Currently under repair, Sandy<\/em> is a petrol driven 7.25″ gauge 0-4-0 locomotive. Its haulage capacity is limited by its comparitively low weight (it must be driven from a truck behind the engine, so there is no extra adhesion provided by the weight of a driver).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sandy<\/em> (nearest the camera) with a driving truck and, behind that, Scamp 105<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Class 08<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Currently under repair, our Class 08 is a 5″ gauge battery-electric model of the ubiquitous shunters that are still common across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Class 08 poses with a riding truck on the raised track at Woodside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The club owns a small number of 5″ and 7.25″ gauge locomotives, as well as rolling stock for carrying passengers or for helping move equipment and materials around the site. GP40 David Eaton Probably our most regularly used locomotive, this 7.25″ gauge battery-electric model is Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-344","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/344\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}